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Cover Your Cams: Webcam of This Couple Got Hacked While Watching Netflix
Hackread ^ | August 11, 2015 | Wagas

Posted on 08/14/2015 11:03:34 AM PDT by Cats Pajamas

The hackers are selling Remote Access Trojan (RAT) to the interested wannabe hackers, and believe it or not, most of the purchasers of these malware programs are youngsters and novice hackers. The malware and Trojans being provided by the hackers will allow anyone to take control of the targeted electronic device, eventually attacking the victim. The report calls them “ratters.”

(Excerpt) Read more at hackread.com ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: hacker; hacking; malware; netflix; rat
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Wonder if the EMAILER knew to do this.
1 posted on 08/14/2015 11:03:34 AM PDT by Cats Pajamas
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To: Cats Pajamas

bfl


2 posted on 08/14/2015 11:06:45 AM PDT by sauropod (I am His and He is mine.)
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To: Cats Pajamas

At work, I put Scotch tape over the camera to my computer, and I don’t have any webcams at home. So I’m not worried.


3 posted on 08/14/2015 11:09:38 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: sauropod

Excuse me?


4 posted on 08/14/2015 11:11:13 AM PDT by Cats Pajamas (Romans 1:18-32 ..............God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things.....)
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To: PAR35

have one on my laptop that in 3 yrs i’ve never turned on.


5 posted on 08/14/2015 11:13:35 AM PDT by wiggen (#JeSuisCharlie)
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To: Cats Pajamas

bfl = Bump For Later (reading i assume....)


6 posted on 08/14/2015 11:13:52 AM PDT by BullDog108 (A Smith & Wesson beats four aces!)
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To: Cats Pajamas

bfl is interweb talk for “bump for later (reading)”


7 posted on 08/14/2015 11:14:15 AM PDT by Leroy S. Mort (The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it ~ G Orwell)
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To: PAR35

Be willing to be that cameras are embedded (if not already) into tv’s so you can be watched.


8 posted on 08/14/2015 11:14:40 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: wiggen
have one on my laptop that in 3 yrs i’ve never turned on.

Yeah, but who else has?

9 posted on 08/14/2015 11:17:06 AM PDT by Leroy S. Mort (The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it ~ G Orwell)
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To: Cats Pajamas

"..I know who you are and I'm telling your Mom and she's gonna kick your lazy 26 yr old a$$ out of her basement you mouse friendly tissue waster"

10 posted on 08/14/2015 11:17:24 AM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: wiggen

But has anyone else turned it on? That’s the question.


11 posted on 08/14/2015 11:21:51 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: Resolute Conservative

I know some smart TVs have ‘above the screen’ cameras. Then there is this: “Apple files patent for camera hidden behind display” http://appleinsider.com/articles/09/01/08/apple_files_patent_for_camera_hidden_behind_display

So that’s why I’m using a 25 year old tube TV.


12 posted on 08/14/2015 11:27:13 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: Cats Pajamas

bfl is a polite phrase.

.... on the other hand, bfd is .... NOT!


13 posted on 08/14/2015 11:28:37 AM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: PAR35

Laptop camera taped and it’s hardly used anyway.

One Webcam that’s connected when needed such as work from home sometimes. Stays on a shelf otherwise.


14 posted on 08/14/2015 11:28:53 AM PDT by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
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To: PAR35

I hate webcams.


15 posted on 08/14/2015 11:30:09 AM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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Laptop camera taped and it’s hardly used anyway.

One Webcam that’s connected when needed such as work from home sometimes. Stays on a shelf otherwise.


16 posted on 08/14/2015 11:30:42 AM PDT by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
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To: Cats Pajamas
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17 posted on 08/14/2015 11:30:58 AM PDT by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: Cats Pajamas

Mine has been covered since 2008. I’m way ahead of the curve. I have my built in mic covered too. People have laughed at me for years, but the joke is on them.


18 posted on 08/14/2015 11:31:41 AM PDT by ballearthout
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To: Resolute Conservative
Be willing to be that cameras are embedded (if not already) into tv’s so you can be watched.

The new "smart" tv's have cameras & microphones already built in.

19 posted on 08/14/2015 11:33:31 AM PDT by Smittie (Just like an alien, I'm a stranger in a strange land)
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To: fishtank

BFL

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20 posted on 08/14/2015 11:33:49 AM PDT by Cats Pajamas (Romans 1:18-32 ..............God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things.....)
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